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Page 5: Historical Events In May - 24

Sunday, 15 June 2025

1895  On this day in history playright Oscar Wilde is convicted on a morals charge in London and sentenced to prison  Click To Send On Messenger Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

1895  On this day in history henry Irving becomes 1st theatrical knight  Click To Send On Messenger Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

1895  On this day in history h S T L "Stork" Hendry, cricketer (Australian all-rounder post-WWI)  Click To Send On Messenger Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

1895  Joseph Quinaux, Belgian painter, dies at 73 on May - 24.  Click To Send On Messenger Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

1898  On May - 24 kathleen Hale, British children book writer/illustrator (Orlando)  Click To Send On Messenger Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

1899  On May - 24 the first auto repair shop opens in Boston  Click To Send On Messenger Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

1899  1st auto repair shop opens (Boston) on this day in history.  Click To Send On Messenger Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

1899  Suzanne Lenglen, France, Wimbledon tennis champion (6-times) on May - 24.  Click To Send On Messenger Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

1900  On May - 24 australians cross Vaal River in South Africa  Click To Send On Messenger Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

1900  Britain annexes Orange Free State on May - 24.  Click To Send On Messenger Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

1900  On this day in history 34th Belmont: Nash Turner aboard Ildrim wins in 2:21¼  Click To Send On Messenger Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

1901  Seventy-eight miners die in the Caerphilly pit disaster in South Wales on May - 24.  Click To Send On Messenger Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

1902  Empire Day first celebrated in Britain on May - 24.  Click To Send On Messenger Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

1902  Empire Day 1st celebrated in Britain on May - 24.  Click To Send On Messenger Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

1903  Aram Katchaturian, Armenian composer, (Earth) on this day in history.  Click To Send On Messenger Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

1904  George Formby, [William Booth], Brit singer/comic (Let George Do It) on this day in history.  Click To Send On Messenger Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

1905  39th Belmont: Eugene Hildebrand aboard Tanya wins in 2:08 on May - 24.  Click To Send On Messenger Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

1905  Mikhail Sholokhov, USSR, writer (And Quiet Flows the Don, Nobel 1965) on this day in history.  Click To Send On Messenger Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

1906  On this day in history edmund Sargant, solicitor  Click To Send On Messenger Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

1908  On this day in history belgium Catholic socialist/liberal parliamentary election  Click To Send On Messenger Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

1908  On this day in history kresimir Fribec, composer  Click To Send On Messenger Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

1909  On May - 24 bristol University granted Royal Charter  Click To Send On Messenger Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

1909  Guillermo Diaz-Plaja, Spanish literary/poet (Lorca) on May - 24.  Click To Send On Messenger Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

1910  Margers Zarins, composer on May - 24.  Click To Send On Messenger Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

1912  On this day in history joan Hammond, British operatic soprano  Click To Send On Messenger Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

1913  Audrey Brown, England, 4 X 100m runner (Olympic-silver-1936) on this day in history.  Click To Send On Messenger Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

1914  On May - 24 clifford Irving, Chairman (Isle of Man Govt)  Click To Send On Messenger Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

1915  Enemy Contracts Annulment Act on May - 24.  Click To Send On Messenger Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

1915  On this day in history formal truce on Gallipoli during which the Turkish dead of the 19 May attacks are buried  Click To Send On Messenger Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

1915  Italy declares war on Austria-Hungary on May - 24.  Click To Send On Messenger Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

1915  Thomas Edison invents telescribe to record telephone conversations on May - 24.  Click To Send On Messenger Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

1916  On this day in history conscription begins in Britain  Click To Send On Messenger Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

1916  French driven out of Fort Douaumont after 500 killed or injured on this day in history.  Click To Send On Messenger Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

1916  On this day in history last British-Indian contract workers arrive in Suriname  Click To Send On Messenger Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

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Famous Birthdays In May - 24

Famous People Born On This Day In History

1522  On May - 24 birth of john Jewel, English bishop (d. 1571)  Click To Send On Messenger Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

1544  On May - 24 birth of william Gilbert, Essex England, physicist (researcher into magnetism)  Click To Send On Messenger Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

1605  Nikon, [Nikita Minin], patriarch of Russian-orthodox church was born on this day in history.  Click To Send On Messenger Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

1610  Giovanni Battista Chinelli, composer was born on this day in history.  Click To Send On Messenger Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

1616  On May - 24 birth of john Maitland, Duke of Lauderdale (d. 1682)  Click To Send On Messenger Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

1619  Philips Wouwerman(s), Dutch painter was born on May - 24.  Click To Send On Messenger Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

1650  On this day in history birth of john Churchill, 1st duke of Marlborough, English general strategist  Click To Send On Messenger Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

1671  On this day in history birth of gian Gastone de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany (d. 1737)  Click To Send On Messenger Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

Famous Deaths In May - 24

Famous People Died On This Day In History

1144  Petronella, wife of earl Floris II the Vette of Holland/regent, dies on this day in history.  Click To Send On Messenger Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

1153  On this day in history david I, King of Scotland, dies  Click To Send On Messenger Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

1351  On May - 24 death of abu al-Hasan 'Ali, Sultan of Morocco (b. circa 1297)  Click To Send On Messenger Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

1408  Death of Taejo of Joseon, ruler of Korea (b. 1335) on this day in history.  Click To Send On Messenger Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

1425  Death of Murdoch Stewart, 2nd Duke of Albany, Scottish politician (b. 1362) on May - 24.  Click To Send On Messenger Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

1456  On this day in history death of ambroise de Loré, French military commander (b. 1396)  Click To Send On Messenger Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

1543  Nicolas Copernicus, astronomer, dies in Poland on this day in history.  Click To Send On Messenger Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

1612  Robert Cecil, 1st Earl of Salisbury/PM (1598-1612), dies at 48 on May - 24.  Click To Send On Messenger Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard


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